Who is responsible?

The Danish authorities are in charge of security at Danish airports. Security control of the airport areas, passengers and baggage at Copenhagen Airport is carried out by Copenhagen Airports (CPH) in compliance with the instructions of the authorities, who also supervise that security requirements are met.

The police The police are generally responsible for security at all Danish airports, and they have their own plans and tasks in connection with maintaining security at the airports, all of which affect day-to-day airport operations to a limited extent only. Police tasks are handled in consultation – and close collaboration – with the CAA-DK and the security managers at the airports affected.   The police handle a broad spectrum of functions at the airport ranging from passport checkpoints to setting the level of security at the airport. For example, it was the police who decided that the level of security at the airport should be

raised after the terrorist attacks in the USA on 11 September 2001.

There is a police station located at the airport, and the police patrol the terminals daily.

The Danish Civil Aviation Administration (CAA-DK)

The CAA-DK is the regulatory authority for civil aviation in Denmark, the Faroe Islands and Greenland. The CAA-DK sets the standards and issues regulations on civil aviation and supervises that they are complied with. In addition, the CAA-DK operates the airport on the Island of Bornholm, Denmark and Vagar Airport on the Faroe Islands. The CAA-DK is an agency under the Ministry of Transport.

The airport’s security staff

The company Copenhagen Airports (CPH) handles the day-to-day operation of the airport with regard to security in compliance with the directions of the regulatory authorities. Security at the airport is subject to a large number of regulatory requirements, and the airport and the airlines are each responsible for different areas. The authorities supervise that the security requirements are complied with.

See also: Where do the regulations come from?